Originally published at: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/how-a-state-domestic-terrorism-law-has-boosted-the-white-houses-texas-antifa-crackdown
This article is part of TPM’s ongoing “Creating the Enemy Within” project, tracking the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on dissent. As the Trump administration brings anti-Trump activists up on terrorism charges, it’s finding that one state has already cleared a path. In Texas, state prosecutors are using a 2023 anti-terrorism law to investigate…
I would like to suggest that joining a group named the Socialist Rifle Club and facilitating an armed protest at a detention center in the middle of a deep red county kind of makes it a little too easy for the fascist bastards to do this to you.